From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J1u5F-0005Tm-DX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBB1c2fo011930; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:38:02 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBB1a3nT009538 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:36:04 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793BB65810 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:36:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.533 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.533 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.534, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HPkQyk5LCgV9 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:35:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BCF865842 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:35:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J1u2H-0002o9-Vs for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:35:49 +0000 Received: from static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca ([24.72.113.196]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:35:49 +0000 Received: from dirtyepic by static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:35:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Handling branch strings Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:35:37 -0600 Message-ID: References: <200712091701.50364.peper@gentoo.org> <475C37C7.8010201@gentoo.org> <20071209185745.2baa293d@blueyonder.co.uk> <20071210043146.GE4162@supernova> <20071210071826.465f7bff@blueyonder.co.uk> <20071210082621.GF14557@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <20071210092132.GB31432@supernova> <3c32af40712100134k40ae92cu48aa7b338657b1fa@mail.gmail.com> <20071210194238.GC31432@supernova> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: static24-72-113-196.yorkton.accesscomm.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071209) In-Reply-To: <20071210194238.GC31432@supernova> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2422aa5c-1d74-4ecb-9d47-b6834b2d5f2a X-Archives-Hash: 87a5ff56f16f71272b0ca63eb2ec2d9b Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 10:34 Mon 10 Dec , Santiago M. Mola wrote: >> On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> While we're getting a bit off the original topic here, it occurred to me >>> that using SLOTs for this, in combination with various SLOT deps and >>> SLOT blockers, might work. Then one could use a search tool that would >>> display SLOTs to show you which branch you're getting. >> Too tricky. It would confuse package managers and would break the >> meaning of SLOT. An use expanded SCM_BRANCH combined with use >> dependencies makes more sense and, hopefully, would be something >> manageable. > You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I would > like to understand the reasoning behind them. I don't understand how it > would be different than any other SLOT, because they're already a > string. USE_EXPAND doesn't allow for the possibility of multiple SLOTs > installed at once, which is a feature I would like. Right, can't you just suffix the SLOT name? My gcc svn builds just do SLOT="${GCC_BRANCH_VER}-svn". This could be a special case though since a gcc install is pretty carefully separated from its other SLOTs. -- looks like christmas at fifty-five degrees this latitude weakens my knees EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 (0xF9A40662) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list